Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-04
FRIDAY NOVEMBER {. 1887.
What Shall The Answer BE :

Inc Baltimore sun, III pointing ont
the Inconsistency involved in alleged in
dependontism and tho bearing the result
Of the Maryland State election next
week will have on the next presidential
election, says
The reelection of President Clevc-
land is directly involved in the State
election, for no man tit to be Mt large
can honestly believe that the State can
he betrayed into Republican hands now
and reclaimed in 1883. With Maryland
lost, or even threatened, to the Clcvc-
land roll.call Of States, what will he the
probable consequence 1t is said upon
good authority that Mr. Jay Gould
thinks West Virginia would certainly
follow, and it needs not the vision of Il
prophet to see Virginia and North Caro-
lima trembling in the balance.
Again
Every consideration of sclf-intGcst,
every tie Of association with the South,
every impulse OF feeling kindlcd by the
memory of Republican misgovernment
IN the past, ought to move our people TO
stand rs firm as adamaut and turn deaf
ear to those who have forgotten their
Own political integrity and now seek TO
mislcad others to their ruin.
II SO much depends upon clccting the
state Democratic ticket in Maryland,
how much more depends upou Demo.
cratic victory in Virginia on Tuesday.
That Virginia is the key to the solid
South and the outer defence against the
inroads of the malignant is recognized
both North and South This has been
made apparent 10y the admission OF our
northern Republican contemporaries and
the interest they have taken in the can
vass here, and by the fact that
prominent southern papers commented
upon the Roanoke platform rs setting
the pace for the presidential campaign
of 1855. The hope OF Tho Democratic
South is that Virginia Will hold her de- |
fences intact on Tuesday against the all
vance guard Of the maliguants aud South
haters, as lei by william MALONE.
the friend oil JoItN SuUWIAN. The hope .
Of the northern scctioualsts Is that on
that day breach may I've made in the
Virginia Democratic lire through which
the bloody shirt brigade viii be able to
pour into ovoIy southern state in No
vembcr of next wear These are facts
that stare NiTginians in tAc face to-day,
and it remains for them TO say who shall
he disappointed-the Democratic South
or the South-hating Republicans Of the
North. What shall the answer be?
And as Virginia stands relatively to
the rest OF the South SO stands Rich
mond to the rest of Virginia. If Yir-
ginia is the key TO the solid South, our
fam city may be regarded as the key to
Virginia. Certainly MAHoNE considers
her such. seeing that he has not only
prepared TO make a direct assault on
Richmond, but is plotting with the
alleged ReiOrmers to the end that they
shall open her gates for him. The cap
ture of Richmond would he a sweet
morsel for MALONE TO roll under
his tongue, even though lie should
meet with defeat in The State
at large. 1t rests with our citizens to
say by their votes on Tuesday whether
the little General shall satisfy his long
nurtured desire for revenge upon them
end be encouraged, despite reveIses
elsewhere, TO attempt to turn Virginia
over year hence to the friend of the ,
force bill, the champion Of ELIZA PINS !
Ton, the manipulation of the great prcsi-
dental steal, and arch traducer of the :
South. What shall the answer be ?
JAY GOULD forsooth thinks that if =,
Maryland should he lost to the Demo-
cratic roll.call West Virginia would
surely follow. Can any one doubt that
the wish Is father to the thought? JAY
GOULD, the monopolist. JAY GOULD, !
the man who it Is charged cndcayorcd O
to cook the returns in the last prosidcn- II
tisl election, so as to give the clcc-
toral vote of New York 10 BLAINE, and
make him President JAY GOULD, the
railroad wreckcr. who has done more Y
than any other man in the United States
10 Cypress the working classes 1t is 0
for the workingncn TO declare whether {
they will countenanco any movement !.
hat would result in the realizing of the .
wish OF this man and his fcllow-monopO. a
lists. What shall the answer be? Fl
Our question must bo answered on 5
Tuesday, aud the answer will be either
10 the honor or to the shame Of Rich "
mond and Virginia Ii 1t is TO be TO p
their honor We need he up aud doing v
guarding against foes without ana foes 1t
nothing for granted, and ii
determined to work increasingly until the o.
mn goes down ON the night OF election. Ii